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Life Skills
- Learn About Charts and Graphs and More: This series of lessons is designed to help with various types of charts and graphs. Learn how to extract information from graphs and charts and how to build them. This site also includes sections on reading, vocabulary, letters/memos, demonstrations, grammar, spelling, numeracy, and the Gunning Reading Formula.
- Project Money: Project Money is a website in plain English that focuses on financial matters that people encounter in everyday life.
Math
- APlus Math: This is a website with online flash cards and games for practicing addition, subtraction and multiplication and other math skills.
Media Learning
- CNN Learning Resources: Literacy Net offers stories from its archives in adventure, business and economy, crime, culture and society, disasters, education, environment, health, politics, religion, science and technology and other stories. The site has an instructor page, a current story, help, and the archives. The site is sponsored by CNN and CBS.
- Literacy Works: The Learning Resources site offers web-delivered instruction using current and past CNN San Francisco bureau and CBS 5 - KPIX (CBS Broadcasting) news stories. Western/Pacific LINCS (part of the National Institute for Literacy's LINCS Project), and Literacy Works has partnered with news agencies to develop an online literacy site that benefits all learners and instructors. This material is intended for adult literacy and educational purposes. Though the intended audience is adults, instructors and learners (of all ages) are encouraged to use this material to promote better literacy.
Each module includes the full text of each story and interactive activities to test comprehension. The learner can choose to read the text, listen to the text, and view a short video clip of the story. Each module is designed for ease of use so the learner can use it independently. The instructor can also incorporate any story into class activities and lesson plans. - National Geographic: A great resource for interesting articles for both English as a second language (ESL) and native speaking learners.
- News for You Online.com: This site offers great articles based on current events and written at reading levels 3 to 6 and ESL levels high-beginning and low-intermediate. One of its best features is that learners can click on sentences and then hear them read aloud. Crossword puzzles and comprehension building exercises that accompany the articles are available and can be downloaded and printed as well.
- TV 411: TV 411is a top pick of the advocacy group Voice of Adult Learners United to Educate. The television series is designed for adults seeking to strengthen their literacy skills and is produced by the Adult Literacy Media Alliance.
Phonics
- Phonics Worksheets: These free printable worksheets are well-designed and also come with answer keys. Print out these online worksheets and practice your reading and phonics skills.
- School Express: This website offers a wide range of worksheets in basic skills in reading and writing. Although designed for children, the materials here can be used for adults also.
Writing, Spelling & Grammar
- Daily Grammar: This information-packed site has explanations and exercises about all aspects of grammar.
- Eleven Rules of Writing: The site is a concise guide to some of the most commonly violated rules of writing, grammar, and punctuation. It is intended for all writers as an aid in the learning and refining of writing skills. Explore each of the rules to see examples of its application, and use the references to find additional explanations and examples on the Web or in print. Look up grammatical terms in the glossary. For a wider variety of information, check related FAQs and other writing resources. Click on the Word of the Day until you've learned a few new words. If you would like to use this set of rules as an aid in your own teaching, see the teacher’s note.
- Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Guide to Grammar and Writing is sponsored by the Capital Community College Foundation. The main page has six drop-down menus, each with several selections to choose from.
- Spelling: A Key to Good Communication: Literacy at Kent State offers spelling and vocabulary programs including homonyms, possessive nouns, commonly misspelled words, and guide words. The site is, of course, sponsored by Kent State University.